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Introduction
A
Farm account books,
1833-1928
A.1 Account books for
Tilton and
Tugby,
Leicestershire,
1849-57
A.2 Miscellaneous farm account books,
1833-1928
B
Enclosure records
C
Tithe records,
1842-77
D
Correspondence,
1788-1851
E
Miscellaneous material, c.1804-1929
| Abstract: Farm accounts, tithe and enclosure awards, correspondence and diary entries, mostly unrelated, 1788-1929. |
The Oxford University Institute of Agricultural Economics was founded in 1913 and its first director was Dr. C.S. Orwin. The Institute achieved distinction for its work on British agricultural problems. In 1986 it was amalgamated with Queen Elizabeth House, the University of Oxford's Centre for Development Studies.
Most of these manuscripts were collected by Dr. C.S. Orwin. They all relate to the practice of farming and many contain economic information.
Records relating to the Earl of Fortescue's Lincolnshire estates, 18th-20th cent., have been transferred to the Devon Record Office. Some printed material has been transferred to Rare Books, and printed ephemera to the John Johnson collection, 2003.
Most of the manuscripts were given to the Institute by Dr. C.S. Orwin.
Oxford, Bodleian Library [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. c. 7120, fols. 1-2].
These books contain daily employment records for each farm labourer and weekly accounts of their wages, as well as summary records for skilled labourers, accounts of livestock, produce and sundries, annual valuations and accounts, and a register of land. The accounts are entered in Robert Swinborne, The Farmer's Complete Account-Book (Colchester, 1848-53).
| Account book, Tugby,
1849-50 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Leics. c. 2 Extent: iv + 168 pages Binding: Quarter tan calf, green cloth boards, ticket inside lower board, 'Sold by Browne, Bible & Crown, Leicester'. |
| Account book, Tugby,
1850-1 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Leics. c. 3 Extent: iv + 168 pages Binding: Quarter red calf, green cloth boards |
| Account book, Tugby,
1856-7 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Leics. c. 4 Extent: iv + 164 pages Binding: Quarter red calf, green cloth boards |
| Account book, Tilton,
1850-1 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Leics. c. 5 Extent: iv + 168 pages Binding: Quarter red calf, green cloth boards |
| Account book, Tilton,
1851-2 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Leics. c. 6 Extent: iv + 168 pages Binding: Quarter tan calf, green cloth boards |
| Account book of John Willison, junior, for Auchendaff
Farm,
Parish Holm,
Scotland,
1833-41 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Scotland f. 1 Extent: 41 leaves Binding: Quarter tan calf, stiffened marbled paper Scope and Content: With (fols. 14-16) child's drawings. Separated Material:Loose letter from a former owner of the volume, 1949, removed from this volume, is MS. Eng. c. 7100, fol. 101. |
| Account book, for an unidentified farm, possibly in
Norfolk,
1852-3, entered in Robert Swinborne,
The Farmer's Complete Account-Book (Colchester,
1851) Shelfmark: MS. Top. Leics. c. 7 Extent: iv + 130 pages Binding: Quarter red calf, green cloth boards |
| Annual valuations of livestock and produce for
Goodfellows Farm,
Filkins,
Oxfordshire,
1919-28 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. c. 884 Extent: 88 leaves, 20-88 blank Binding: Half red calf, papered boards Separated Material: Loose items removed from this volume, including a sale catalogue and valuation for Goodfellows Farm, 1928, and a sale catalogue for Furzey Hall Farm, Filkins, 1926, are MS. Eng. c. 7100, fols. 87-100. |
| Copy,
1808, of enclosure award for
Flaxton,
North Yorkshire,
1658 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Yorks. e. 32 Extent: vi + 156 pages, 83-156 blank Binding: Quarter tan calf, marbled boards; upper board detached Scope and Content: Includes
Loose page listing the land owners who were bound by the decisions of the enclosure commissioners in 1658, removed to MS. Eng. c. 7100, fol. 102. Custodial History: Inscribed (p. i), 'Thos. Wright - Flaxton'; bookplate (p. i), 'University of Oxford Agricultural Economics Research Institute'. |
| Copy by Macaulay, Leicester,
19th cent., of the enclosure award for
Cossington,
Leicestershire,
1666-7 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7120 Extent: 15 leaves Material: Paper watermarked, 'E. Towgood 1860' Scope and Content: Includes (fols. 7-12) survey of land, 5 Sept. 1666. |
| '
Dunkeswell Inclosure
1818', typescript copy of all claims to
rights of commons, with commissioners verdict Shelfmark: MS. Top. Devon c. 24 Extent: ii + 25 leaves Binding: Bound by Maltby of Oxford in green cloth boards Custodial History: Bookplate on front pastedown, 'University of Oxford Agricultural Economics Research Institute'; shelfmark on front pastedown, 'Acc. 690'. |
| Copy of tithe apportionment,
1842, and altered tithe apportionment, with
plan,
1877, for
Cossington,
Leicestershire Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3609 Extent: 10 pages |
| Letters to
Philip
Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, and his wife, Elizabeth Yorke,
relating to the management of their estate at
Wimpole,
Cambridgeshire, and
agricultural practice in general,
1796-1813 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7121 Extent: i + 101 leaves Scope and Content: Includes letters from
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| Letters to
Philip
Pusey, MP and agriculturalist,
1835-51 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3610 Extent: i + 75 leaves Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Scope and Content: Includes letters from
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| Letters from
Charles
Kingsley to
John
Malcolm Forbes Ludlow,
1848-51 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3611 Extent: ii + 83 leaves Scope and Content: Includes (fols. 82-3) one letter in reply from Ludlow, n.d. |
| Miscellaneous correspondence,
1788-1848 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7122 Extent: 28 leaves Scope and Content: Comprises
Large printed catalogue for John McEvoy's tree and shrubs, removed to MS. Eng. misc. b. 433, fols. 40-1. |
| 'A History of Twelve years life on Exmoor', by
William Hannem
of Cornham Farm,
Exmoor, Devon,
1845-57 Shelfmark: MS. Top. Devon e. 11 Extent: iv + 444 pages Binding: Bound by Maltby of Oxford in brown cloth boards, gilt-ruled spine Scope and Content: An edited transcription, with introduction, can be found in C.S. Orwin and R.J. Sellick, The Reclamation of Exmoor Forest (Newton Abbot, 1970), pp. 237-91. Custodial History:Bookplate on front pastedown, 'University of Oxford Agricultural Economics Research Institute'. |
| Typescript draft of chapter VIII of C.S. Orwin,
The Reclamation of Exmoor Forest (London, 1929),
with manuscript notes and related correspondence,
1928-9 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7123 Extent: 87 leaves |
| Miscellaneous papers,
[1823]-1834 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3612 Extent: 61 leaves Scope and Content: Comprises
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| Proofs of illustrations, with descriptions, for an
unidentified work on agricultural implements, techniques and drainage,
c.1804 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3613 Extent: 75 leaves Material: Paper watermarked 1802-4 |